I will check but I don't think so - The system has worked for years without any trouble and I did a full wipe e.g. "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada1" but let me check again - for ease - I think I am going to do a vanilla single drive pool -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Steven Hartland Sent: 07 February 2017 16:41 To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot trouble On 07/02/2017 16:33, Toomas Soome wrote: > >> On 7. veebr 2017, at 18:08, Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn_at_btinternet.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> >> >> Last week I decided to upgrade my FreeBSD installation - it's been a >> while (September 16 was last time). Unfortunately CURRENT does not >> boot and cash in a weird way. Both 11-RELEASE and 12 CURRENT boot >> loader seems to attempt to read blocks that exceeds the physical >> disk. Initially I through it was a hard disk error - but after a "oh" >> experience I realised that the >> "gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 921592" is actually beyond the physical >> boundaries of the disk (300GB disk). In order to rule out different >> options - I installed a vanilla 11-RELEASE on the 300G with a simple >> stripe - it also gives the error but does boot - the LBA of the error >> is slightly different on 11 CURRENT and comes up with LBA 921600 >> >> >> >> I have scanned all the disks for physical faults and there seems to >> be none and I have tried doing a single disk installation on each >> disk - they give the same error - Does anybody have any idea? >> Included Photos as sometimes it get through to the actual boot menu >> but then crash in another place >> > > The gptzfsboot does read the backup label from the disk and the GPT > backup label is stored at the end of the disk. The location of the > backup label is in the primary GPT table, alternate sector field. I > wonder if that location is somehow set to bad value… > > Booting from a live CD and inspecting the label with gpart show should be able to confirm that. Regards Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Tue Feb 07 2017 - 16:22:59 UTC
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